Enriching ice cream with tiny amounts of pomegranate offers a way of making the dessert healthier.

Pomegranate
peel is rich in antioxidants, while its seeds contain a fatty acid that
previous research has linked to fat-burning and anti-cancer properties.

In a study at Erciyes University in Turkey, pomegranate peel and
oil from the seeds were added to regular ice cream at very low levels -
less than 1 per cent of the total weight.

This was enough to
significantly improve the antioxidant content of the ice cream without
affecting taste or texture, the researchers concluded.

Previous research suggests that pomegranate seeds can improve the body's response to insulin.

Can living on a hill cut your risk of diabetes?

If you are a man, the higher you live above sea level, the lower your risk of type 2 diabetes is, a new study has found.

Based
on results from 300,000 men and women, the U.S. Diabetes and Obesity
Research Institute found that men who lived in homes between 500m and
1,499m above sea level (some parts of Sheffield would fall into this
category) were 5 per cent less likely to develop the disease - even
after adjusting for factors such as weight, fruit and vegetable
consumption, and levels of physical activity. And it dropped to 12 per cent for men who lived above 1,500m.

Previous studies have found that altitude is linked to better glucose tolerance, increased metabolic rate, and reduced appetite.

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Blast of ultrasound to clear blood clots

Drugs that break up life-threatening blood clots are being made to work faster with ultrasound waves. Every
year, around 150,000 Britons suffer from pulmonary embolisms - blood
clots that cut off blood supply between the heart and the lungs - which
can be life-threatening.

The standard treatment for the clots, which usually originate in the deep veins in the legs, is clot-busting drugs.

A
new device made by Ekos Corporation in the U.S. delivers an
anti-clotting drug via a catheter - a fine tube - fed to the site of
the blockage.

Ultrasound waves are then used to 'shake' the drug,
which results in more of it getting into the clot so that it breaks
down more quickly.